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  1. Gastromancy
    Gas`tro·man'cy noun [ Gastro- + -mancy : confer French gastromancy .] (Antiq.) (a) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. (b) A species of divination, by means of glasses...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/12

  2. gastromancy
    A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. ... A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art. ... Origin: Gastro- + -mancy: cf. F. Gastromancy. ... Source: Websters...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?gastromancy

  3. Gastromancy
    • (n.) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. • (n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/gastromancy/

  4. gastromancy
    gastromancy Divination by listening to stomach sounds or the use of ventriloquism, and/or with the marks on the stomach; also, divination by a trance voice coming through a psychic. Because the voice sounded very low and hollow, people thought it was coming from the stomach.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2725/7

  5. Gastromancy
    Gastromancy is divination by means of the sounds from or signs on the stomach.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AG.HTM

  6. Gastromancy
    Gastromancy is from Greek gastēr (meaning "belly") and manteia (meaning "prophecy"). It can refer to: ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastromancy

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